Local Sports

Skater of the Month is April Wang. April is 13 years old and attends Grade 7 at Roberts Creek Elementary School. April says her favourite thing about skating is when she learns something new. She also loves doing spins on the ice.

Four Sunshine Coast players have been selected to represent Team BC at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) in Whitehorse from May 7 to 12.

The Hitmen hosted their fifth annual Seven-a-Side Hockey Tournament April 26 to 28 at the Sechelt Ice Arena. The Tournament was another huge success, with a total of 12 teams playing in two divisions for the prestigious trophy.

Coaster 50, the annual marathon cross-country bike race that kicks off Cycling BC’s XCM series, will turn 20 years old at this year’s race scheduled for Saturday, May 4.

The Chatelech Girls’ rugby team travelled to Fen Burdett stadium in North Vancouver on April 17 to compete against the best high school Sevens teams in the Lower Mainland.

The Easter bunny had been busy hiding chocolate eggs for the runners who started the Easter weekend with a 5km or 10km trail race in and around Connor Park in Halfmoon Bay.

Did you happen to see 80 sailboats out in the Strait of Georgia over the Easter weekend? Gibsons sailor Marc Soprovich, skipper of Sunshine, recently placed second on the Short Course in the West Vancouver Yacht Club’s 51st annual Southern Straits re

The Sunshine Coast Volleyball Club’s (SCVC) U17 team finished their successful season with a great performance at the BC Club Provincials on the weekend at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

For those wondering how long it takes to get from one ferry terminal to the other by foot and mostly through forest, now there is a time to beat.

The Sunshine Coast’s Common Rabble paintball team helped pull off something no other team in the province has done in more than a decade Six members of the team were in Surrey April 7 to compete in a tournament where the Sunshine Coasters were nomina